SEPAWA® CONGRESS 2022 

Speaker: Immo Sander

Company: Werner & Mertz GmbH

Title: The Werner & Mertz Recyclate Initiative - Sustainability in Packaging for Home and Personal Care

Abstract: The Werner & Mertz Recyclate-Initiative is the pioneering umbrella project for sustainable packaging concepts for home and personal care products. Started more than 10 years ago the foundation was bulit by consequent usage of recycled plastic materials. Believing in the Cradle-to-Cradle® product design for end consumer products Werner & Mertz supported the circularity principle by application of almost unused waste streams especially plastics from household waste collection. Many fundamental projects derrived from this idea. Around the application of recycled plastics Werner & Mertz took care of the quality of mechanical recycled plastic itself. Therefore, different industrial and university development cooperations were established on the so-called innovation platform for material sciences (polymers, additives), printing inks, adhesives and recycling processes.